Lipstick or rouge container



Nov. 7, 1961 J. A. BABIN LIPSTICK OR ROUGE CONTAINER Filed June 3, 19603,007,569 LIPSTICK R ROUGE CONTAINER Jacques Alfred Babin, Paris,France, assignor to Societe a responsabilite limitee: General Plastics,Levallois,

France Filed June 3, 1960, Ser. No. 33,842 Claims priority, applicationFrance Sept. 3, 1959 4 Claims. (Cl. 20656) The present invention relatesto lipstick or rouge containers adapted to contain for example alipstick capable of being brought to an outwardly projecting positionwith respect to the body of the container owing to a relative angularmotion between appropriate parts of said container.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved lipstick or rougecontainer of the aforesaid type capable of being made of plastic andlending itself to a particularly simple and easy construction andassembly without requiring screwing, sticking or welding operations asis the case with metal lipstick containers belonging to the prior art.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved lipstick orrouge container of the aforesaid type made of a resilient plastic suchas polystyrene or polyethylene and including a body, a socket memberrevoluble in said body, a first slot in said socket member, a sleeveconnected for joint angular motion with said body, a second slot in saidsleeve, said slots having an intersection point, a lipstick or rougestick-holding cup member slidable in said sleeve and a projection orprotuberance on said cup member and engaged through said slots at saidintersection point, said container being chiefly characterized byundercut stepped outlines providing shoulders on said body, on saidsocket member and on said sleeve for permitting their ready assembly bya springing action and their retention in assembled condition.

Yet another object of the invention is to provide an improved lipstickor rouge container of the aforesaid type wherein the outer body has ashoulder on which the lower edge of the socket member may rest, saidsocket member being connected to the cap by undercut and oppositelydirected shoulders adapted for telescopic interengagement, undueWithdrawal of the assembly made up of said cap and socket member beingprevented by a lower shoulder formed on the sleeve housed in the socketmember and cooperating with a suitable shoulder on the body, the cupmember in which the lipstick or rouge stick is frictionally held havingan aperture normally closed by shells mounted [for rocking motion so asto liberate said aperture, all the parts of said container havingundercut stepped outlines permitting them to be assembled by a springingaction, their retention in assembled condition being ensured by theshoulder defined by said stepped outlines.

A further object of the invention is to provide a lipstick or rougestick container as aforesaid wherein the outer body of the container hasa shoulder on which the lower edge of the socket member may be abutted,said socket member being connected to the cap by undercut shoulders ofopposite directions resiliently telescoped into each other, unduewithdrawal of the assembly made up the cap and socket member beinginhibited by a lower shoulder on the sleeve fitted in the socket memberand cooperating with an appropriate shoulder on the body, thestick-holding cup member being advantageously provided with a stud orprotuberance engaged through a longitudinal slot in the sleeve andthrough a helical slot in the socket member, whereby an angular motionof said socket member responsive to actuation of the cup member relativeto the body causes a longitudinal shift of the cup member inside thesleeve.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a lipstick orrouge container as aforesaid wherein the upper end of the sleeve isadvantageously shaped in form of a substantially spherical head, whilethe shells which close the upper aperture in the cap are rockable aboutbearing bosses of approximately cylindrical shape forming the ends ofarms rigid with the socket member; said shells partly surrounding saidbearing bosses under conditions preventing their pivotal motion aboutthe longitudinal axis of the container and having heel portion orsimilar protuberances engaged into helical grooves formed in the upperspherical head of the sleeve, whereby a relative angular motion betweenthe socket member and the sleeve causes the shells to become opened.

An advantage of the invention is that all the elements of which theimproved lipstick or rouge stick container are made up may bemanufactured by injection molding or a like process, use being made ofany suitable plastic such as polystyrene or polyethylene and that,moreover, if deemed desirable, the outer body of the container may befitted with a metal skirt of appropriate shape or alternatively atransparent skirt permitting an intermediate element such as an elementbearing printed matter or an adornment or decoration to be interposedbetween said skirt and the container.

With these and such other objects and advantages in View as willincidentally appear hereafter, the invention comprises the novelconstruction and combination of parts that will be now described withreference to the accompanying drawing exemplifying the same and forminga part of the present disclosure.

In the drawing:

FIGURE 1 is a sectional elevational view of a constructional form of alipstick container according to the invention, the left hand sideportion of this view showing the lipstick in withdrawn position whileits right hand side portion shows the stick-holding cup member in raisedposition.

FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view along a plane ofisetby to the sectional plane in FIG. 1.

FIGURE 3 is a cross sectional View on the line III-III of FIG. :1.

In the illustrated constructional form, the lipstick container is madeup of parts advantageously obtained by injection molding of a suitableresilient plastic and comprises a substantially cylindrical outer body 1(for example made of polystyrene) having an upwardly directed doubleshoulder 2, 3 adjacent its lower end and a downwardly directed flaringportion 4. A socket member 5 (made for example of polystyrene) is housedin the body 1 with a small clearance permitting their relative rotation.The lower edge of the socket 5 is abutted upon the body shoulder 2. Thesocket member 5 is also provided with an upper flange =6 carrying a pairof upwardly directed arms 20 whose projecting lower end defines a narrowassembling shoulder 7 upon which can be resiliently telescoped anothershoulder 8 directed in the opposite direction and defined by the loweredge of recesses 26 formed in a cap 9 which is abutted against the upperedge of the body 1. Mutual telescopic engagement of the cap 9 upon theflange 6 on the socket member 5 ensures interconnection by the arms 20and the recesses 26 for joint angular motion. The cap 9 may be made forexample of polyethylene and is advantageously knurled on its peripheryfor facilitating its manipulation.

A sleeve 10 is mounted coaxially inside the socket member 5 and may berotated with respect thereto. The sleeve :10 which can be made ofpolystyrene is provided near its lower end with a flange l1 abutted uponthe shoulder 3 on the body 1 and engaged under the lower edge of thesocket member 5 and with an end thickened portion 12 whichtelescopically cooperates with the flaring portion 4 of the body 1 undersuch conditions as to prevent undue withdrawal of said sleeve upwards. Ashoulder 13 on the sleeve rests upon the upper edge of the socket member5 so that the latter is maintained with the cap 9 in correct assemblingposition with respect to the body 1.

A cup member 14 in which a lipstick or rouge stick B is frictionallyheld is slidably housed in the sleeve 10. The cup member 14 which may bemade for example of polyethylene carries a stud 15 engaged into alongitudinal slot 16 in the sleeve 10 and into a helical slot- 17 in thesocket member 5 as is clearly visible in FIG. 2, thereby ensuring apositive control of the position of the cup member 14 in the container.

A plug 18 (made for example of polyethylene) closes the lower end of thecontainer. A flange or collar on said plug 18 has a thickened portion 19elastically tucked, for performing the assembly, into a correspondinginner depression in the lower part of the sleeve 10.

Both arms 20 of the socket member 5 terminate in cylindrical bosses 21forming bearings for a pair of shells 22 which close the upper mouth ofthe container. Said shells 22 have arcuate recesses which bear upon thebearings 21 under conditions permitting them to be rocked about atransverse axis set into the container wall. The shells 22 are providedadjacent their inwardly directed edge with heel portions 23 which areengaged into helical grooves 24 formed in a spherical head 25 formingthe upper termination of the sleeve. The shells 22 may be made forexample of polyethylene.

It will be understood that the parts of which the container is made upare assembled together by resilient telescoping actions and that theundercut outline which is provided permits such assembling to be readilyperformed without necessitating screwing, sticking, welding or likeoperations.

Advantageously the dimensions may be so calculated as to provide aslight clamping action of the cup member as it assumes its upperposition. Notches may be formed in the parts as they are being moldedfor presetting their position of assembly with proper accuracy.

The operation of this lipstick or rouge container will be easilyunderstood from the foregoing: Assuming the stick B to occupy itswithdrawn position inside the container (as shown in the left hand sideportion of FIG. 1) the user may for make-up purposes, cause ejection ofthe stick B single-handed by holding the body 1 of the container in herpalm while rotating the cap 9 by means of her fingers. The cap thenrevolves the socket member 5 since it is connected for joint angularmotion owing to the arms 20 and recesses 26 while the sleeve 10 and thecup member 14 remain angularly motionless. The slots in the socketmember 5 and in the sleeve, into which the stud 15 on the cup member 14is engaged then move the latter upwardly, thereby pushing out the stickB. Likewise relative angular motion between the head 25 which forms theend of the sleeve 10 and the shells 22 angularly movable with the socketmember 5 about the longitudinal axis of the container causes, owing tosliding motion of the heel portions 23 of said shells through thehelical slots 24 in the head 25, the shells to be opened, thus enablingthe stick B to come out.

Advantageously the outlines of the helical slots 24 in the head 25 and17 in the socket member 5 are such that the shells are first opened to asuitable degree before upward motion of the stick B is started, therebystaving off any risk of undue contact between the stick and the shells.

Minor constructional details may be varied without departing from thesubjoined claims.

What is claimed is:

1. In a lipstick or rouge container made of a resilient plasticincluding an outer body having a first, and a second shoulders, a socketmember revoluble in said body and having an upper edge and a lower edge,said lower edge resting on said first shoulder, a cap sunnounting saidbody, mating undercut shoulders on said socket member and cap andelastically interengagcd, a sleeve revoluble in said socket member, afirst shoulder on said sleeve and fitting said upper edge of the socketmember, a second shoulder on the sleeve resting on said second shoulderof the body, an end thickened portion provided on said sleeve beyond itssecond shoulder, a flaring portion provided in said body, said thickenedportion of the sleeve engaging said flaring portion of the body forholding said body, socket and sleeve in assembled condition, a firstslot in said socket member, a second slot in said sleeve, said slotshaving an intersection point, a rouge-holding cup member slidablethrough the sleeve, and a protuberance on said cup member and engagedthrough said slots at said intersection point.

2. A rouge container according to claim 1 comprising a spherical headforming the end of the sleeve and operatively connected thereto, saidspherical head providing an aperture, hearings on the socket member,shells rockable on said bearings for closing said aperture, projectionson said shells, and helical grooves in said head, said projections beingengaged in said grooves for opening or closing said shells responsive toangular motion of said socket member and said sleeve.

3. A lipstick or rouge container made of a resilient plastic comprisingan outer body having first and second shoulders and a flaring portionproviding a surface oppositely directed with respect to said shoulders,a socket member revoluble in said body and having lower and upper edges,said lower edge of the socket member resting upon the first shoulder ofthe body, a cap surmounting said body, recesses in said cap, projectingarms operatively connected with said socket member and engaged into saidrecesses for angular and axial interconnection between said socketmember and said cap, a sleeve revoluble in said socket member, a firstshoulder on the sleeve and resting on the upper edge of the socketmember, a second shoulder on the sleeve, resting on said second shoulderof the body, an end thickened portion on said sleeve, engaging saidoppositely extending flaring portion of the body for providing elasticassembly of the body, socket members, cap and sleeve, a first slot insaid socket member, a second slot in said sleeve, said slots having anintersection point, a rouge-holding cup member slidable through saidsleeve, and a protuberance on said cup member and engaged through saidslots at said intersection point.

4. A rouge container according to claim 3 comprising a spherical headforming the end of the sleeve and rigid therewith, said head defining anaperture, hearings on the arms of said socket member, shells rockable onsaid bearings and adapted to cover said aperture, protuberances on saidshells, and helical grooves in said spherical head, said protuberancesbeing engaged in said grooves for opening or closing the shellsresponsive to a relative angular motion between the socket member andthe sleeve.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,870,941 Barendse Aug. 9, 1932 2,360,350 Kirk-Schneider Oct. 17, 1944FOREIGN PATENTS 506,428 Great Britain May 23, 1939 265,348 SwitzerlandMay 23, 1949 325,307 Switzerland Dec. 14, 1957 OTHER REFERENCES KoppersPlastics-Modern Packaging, page 54, Octo- 7s ber 1958.

